The Elephant in the room
drinkanddrugsnews 19 November 2007 12-13
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Neville Adams
"The vast vocabulary relating to race and diversity must not obscure the need to tackle racism and discrimination head on. Surveying the current circuitous linguistic map of race equality in the drugs’ sphere and wider public sectors, one can’t help wondering, as in the myth of Babel, whether or not those who originally dared to use the terms ‘race’, racism’ and ‘race equality’ – in trying to make accountable powerful, but unjust, societal forces – were punished by the powers that be for erecting so direct a tower, that they were thereafter forced to speak many languages."